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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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GrassTops: America Demands Obama Impeachment

This one will leave you scratching your head. Less than two weeks after President Obama was reelected, winning both the popular vote and the electoral vote, a wingnut group called Grasstops USA says that the American people have demanded that Obama be impeached:

“The American people have demanded that Barack Obama be impeached and now, Barack Obama has thrown down his gauntlet and is demanding his own impeachment over the growing Benghazi scandal. So, Mr. Boehner, Mr. McConnell what are you waiting for, it’s time to get busy.”

And by the “American people,” they of course mean their own utterly loony followers. But they’re the only ones who count. They’re the Real Americanstm, not all those dark-skinned people and women who voted for Obama.

…Barack Obama has thrown down his gauntlet and is demanding his own impeachment…

What? The President is demanding that he be impeached? Couldn’t he just resign if he didn’t want the job anymore, or is it some very subtle dog whistle that suggests he would prefer to be fired to collect unemployment insurance?

I got accosted by an old man in McDonalds the other day about Benghazi. He asked me how the real estate business in our area was doing (he saw me walk over from my office). He then asked me what the effects of Obamacare were going to have on the real estate market. After I answered, ‘not at all but it would help economic growth nationwide than if we’d done nothing’, he used that opportunity to get into to with me about Benghazi.

Yes, in the Fox News viewers’ eyes, Benghazi is directly tied to how healthcare financing effects real estate. He claimed he was a Korean vet and, “his brothers”, our Libyan Ambassador and the four others who died, were called “bumps in the road” by President Obama. Fortunately I was next to order.

In fact this term was used by President Obama in a 60 Minutes interview to describe our efforts in general in the broader region and Middle East, he was not referring to the four who died. I then found out that Fox News and some Republicans leveraging Fox News are lying about the what the president said.

In light of President Bush’s record on Iraq, on torture, prior to 9/11, his record on al Qaeda after 9/11, to go after President Obama (who he of course called “Obama”) for the relatively trivial tragedy in Benghazi compared to the history of presidents in wartime, it’s very illustrative of how hateful and delusional older Republican voters have become. We can thank Fox News, AM talk radio, and viral emails for that. But hey, in early-2009 they were calling for the assassination of President Obama, so I suppose impeachment is moral progress.

“They’re the Real Americanstm, not all those dark-skinned people and women who voted for Obama.”

I’m really cranky this morning. I am SO tired of this meme. Yeah most “dark skinned” and Y challenged voters voted for Obama. But so did a whole shitload of “light skinned”, X deficient voters, including this one.

They (Grasstops) also want to “depose” John Boehner–he’s so weepy and soft that he’s caving on Obamacare and “Benghazi-gate”. Obama “ordered his own impeachment” at the press conference when he told McCain to leave Susan Rice alone and take it up with him instead. The birth certificate? Still not real.

Just more babble from the bubble. Because everyone inside the bubble is screaming formObama’s impeachment, then all of America must be. It’s also why they can’t comprehend how the Mooslim usurper got re-elected.